The Soviet Union: A Global Power Flux with Melvin Croan

Melvin Croan is Professor of Political Science and Chairman of the Russian Area Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard where he also previously taught. He is the author of many studies on Soviet, East European, and German affairs and most recently has co-authored a Brookings Institution study on US Troops in Europe (1971) and contributed to a book on The Communist States in Disarray (1972). Dr. Croan has recently travelled to Eastern Europe in connection with research on Wet Germany's Ostpolitik on which he is presently engaged.